This will prolly be lost on many of our younger Milk & Cookies members, but this film was a classic in every sense of the word. At the time of shooting, MGM was run by boy wonder "Irving Thalberg," who died a year after this film was made at the ripe old age of 37. He was constantly doing battle w/the Hays' Office, a one-man operation of moral rectitude run by Will Hays, the chairman of the RNC and a former postmaster general (as qualified as Michael Brown to run FEMA...heh.). Up until 1927 movies had no limitations in terms of subject matter and nudity, but then after the Fatty Arbuckle trial, Hollywood was pressured to clean up its act. The throwaway one-liners in this particular scene, "He's getting more action asleep than I get awake" were hard-won, in part, by Thalberg who believed that you can have clever entendres for an adult audience in a family film. One of my favorite lines from this film, which was reinstated when it was reissued in the 1970s, was when Groucho and his female love interest are boarding the ship and she says, "Did you remember everything?" and he quips, "I haven't had any complaints yet." So this is why this movie is of seminal interest: a brave studio head went up against moral authority all in the name of entertainment.